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273-275 S. Canal St. 
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The Logic 
of Fireproof Windows 


BaAkRY<G.KNISELY: CO: 
273-275 S. Canal Street 
Chicago, Ill. 


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HARRY C.. WNISELY —COMPANY, CHICAGO 


THE BORLAND BUILDING 


CHICAGO 
Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge C. Everett Clark Co. 


Architects Gen'l Contractors 


Thirteen floors of this building equipped with the Harry C. Knisely Co.'s 
Fireproof Windows. 


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HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 


To the Architectural Profession, Builders and Owners: 


N fireproof windows, as in every other 
manufactured product, there are differ- 
ent degrees of excellence. 

These differences are due partly to va- 
riations in the design of construction, more 
largely to variations in workmanship. 

Our windows, we believe, present 
points of superior excellence in designing. 
These we are always glad to explain. 

Most particularly we solicit business on 
the ground of thorough, careful work- 
manship. 

No skimping or “skinning,” is permitted 
on our work. It is a standing order in our 
factory, that "good enough" is not sufficient. 
Every window must be fully up to the 
standard; must be the best that can be 
made. 

Of course this is easy to say. Any 
one can say it. We believe we can 
prove it to the satisfaction of any prospec- 
tive customer, if given the opportunity. 


HARRY C. KNISELY 
COMPANY 


273 South Canal Street Chicago 


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Test of our Standard Pivoted Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 


The photograph shows the interior view before the test 


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PARR ay CaoNINISELY: COMPANY, CHICAGO 


The Reason Why 


HIRTY-ONE. per cent of all fire 
losses are due to the "exposure 


hazard." 


This statement is based on the accur- 
ate records of fire insurance experience 
for a period of twenty years. 


It means that if your building is ever 
damaged or destroyed by fire, the chances 
are one in three that the loss will be 
caused by a fire in your neighbor's 
building. 

It means that if you adopt every known 
safeguard against fire in your own build- 
ing, but fail to protect yourself against 
fire in an adjoining building, the odds are 
still one to two that you will suffer serious 
fire loss. 


It means that if you do protect your 
building against fire from the exterior, that 
you reduce by one third the danger of 
fire loss to your property. 

You will thereby reduce your fire in- 
surance charges by a reduction in rate, 
proportionate to the decrease in hazard. 

Windows of wire glass with correctly 
made metal sashes are recognized by fire 
underwriters as the best protection against 


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Test of our Standard Pivoted Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 


The photograph shows exterior view before the test 


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HARRY! (C.. KRNISELY: COMPANY, -CHICAGO 


exterior fires and rates are made accord- 
ingly. 

It is a curious comment upon popular 
ideas regarding so called "fireproof" 
buildings that comparatively little consid- 
eration is given to this question of window 
protection. 


On every hand we see these fireproof 
buildings being erected. They are given 
really fireproof walls, floors and partitions 
of brick, concrete or tile, with windows 
of common glass in wooden sashes, in- 
viting fire from surrounding combustible 
buildings to enter at every window. 


Imagine building a vault of solid 
masonry, to protect valuables from fire 
and then cutting a hole in the wall of the 
vault, filling that opening with a window 
of plain glass and wood sash, while all 
around this vault is wooden office furni- 
ture and combustible goods of every 
description! 


How secure would the contents of such 
a vault be? 

Now, we do not need windows for in- 
terior vaults, but we must have them for 
buildings. 


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HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 


Test of our Standard Pivoted Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 


Photograph shows exterior view after the test. Note the excellent 
condition of the metal frame and sash. 


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There are only two conditions under 
which a building does not require fire- 
resisting window openings. | 

First, when the walls of the building 
are of combustible material (wood) in 
which case the walls would burn away 
from the window, and 


Second, when a building is entirely 
isolated on all sides and separated by 
wide spaces from any other building or 
source of fire and will always be thus 
isolated. 

If your building is in either one of 
these two classes you do not need fire- 
resisting windows. 


If it is not, you not only need windows 
which are proof against fire, but it would 
be a serious error if you did not have 
them installed. 


It would be an error in two ways. 
First, in not taking advantage of a means 
of eliminating one-third of the fire risk 
on your property. Second, in not taking 
advantage of a means of reducing your 
fire insurance charges to such an extent, 
that, even if your property were never 
threatened by fire you would still have a 


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Test of our Standard Sliding Sash Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 


Photograph shows exterior view before the test 


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constant saving every year equivalent to a 
saving on the original cost of the build- 
ing. 

To illustrate this second point: Sup- 
pose your building equipped with ordinary 
wood sash windows cost $75,000, 
contents of building valued at $100,000, 
total $175,000. Your insurance rate, 
say, would be $1.50 per $100.00 and 
you would insure for full value. Insur- 
ance cost to you would be twenty-six 
hundred and twenty-five dollars per year 
and this would be a fixed, permanent 
charge every year. 

Now suppose you substituted Harry 
C. Knisely Co. Fireproof windows at an 


- extra cost, say, of $3,000, enabling you 


to get an insurance rate of $1.00 per 
hundred. Your yearly insurance charge 
would then be seventeen hundred and 
eighty dollars on a valuation of $1 78,000, 


a saving of $845 a year. 


In less than four years you would save 
the additional cost of the fireproof win- 


‘dows and every year thereafter this 


saving would be "velvet." In other 


words if your building should never be in 


CHICAGO 


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HARRY oC..VKNISELDY COMPANY, “CHICAGO 


Test of our Standard Sliding Sash Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 


Photograph shows interior view before the test 


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danger by fire from aneighbor, you would 
save an appreciable sum and if your 
neighbor should have a fire, your building 
and its contents would be saved. 

In an article in “Concrete and Con- 
structional Engineering, ’’ of London, Sep- 
tember 1906, Captain John Stephen 
Sewell, who made the official report for 
the United States Government on the 
causes and conditions of the San Francis- 
co fire says: 


“The question of window protection 
is by all odds the most important. Had 
the fire been kept out of the ‘fireproof’ 
buildings in San Francisco, none of the 
weakness in either concrete or hollow 
tiles would have been developed and even 
the flimsy commercial type would have 
been on the whole good enough.” * * 


The serious problem in congested dis- 
tricts of large cities is not only the secur- 
ing of a ‘fireproof’ covering for the steel 
frame, or a ‘fireproof’ construction which 
will have such resistance that it will come 
through a fierce fire undamaged, but is 
the devising of means of excluding an 
external fire.” 


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Test of our Standard Sliding Sash Window at the Underwriters’ Laboratories, July, 1906 


Photograph shows interior view after the test. Note the excellent 
condition of metal frame and sash. 


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HARRY: Cy, (RNISELY “COMPANY, CHICAGO 


This point has been the predominating 
lesson drawn by every authority who has 
pointed out the cause for the spread of 
the San Francisco conflagration. 


We are prepared to prove to the sat- 
isfaction of every interested builder or 
architect, that our Metal Window Sash 
and Frames, glazed with wire glass, will 
resist an exterior fire successfully and keep 
fire out of any building protected by our 
window construction. We will prove it 
by reference to fires through which our 
Window Construction has_ successfully 
passed. We will prove it by actual test. 


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HARRY C. KNISELY CO."S STANDARD AUTOMATIC 
PIVOTED WINDOW 


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CHMNISELY: GOM PANY, 


CHICAGO 


Extracts from the specifications of the National Board of 
Underwriters for the manufacture of 


Fireproof Windows 


Metal frames containing sash or glass 
are not to be more than 5 feet wide nor 
more than 9 feet high at their highest 
point. 


All frames in excess of these dimen- 
sions must be reinforced and divided by 
mullions or transom bars, consisting of a 
5-inch I beam, protected by not less than 
2 inches of concrete on flanges and at least 
2% inches next to the web. I beams to 
be properly fastened to iron work of the 
building or to extend into the masonry at 
least 24 inches at each end. 


In new buildings the reinforcing mem- 
bers should be installed as the building 


is erected. 


No single light of glass will exceed 
720 square inches in area or be more than 
48 inches in either dimension. 


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ALL WINDOWS MANUFACTURED BY THE HARRY C. KNISELY CO. AND 
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ATORIES’ INSPECTORS. BEAR THIS LABEL 


Section of Chicago Building Ordinance Relating to 
Fireproof Windows 


SECTION 632 


(Doors and Windows. When Required to Be Closed. 
Fire Resisting Glass.) 


Wherever the distance between doors and windows in buildings of Classes I., II., IV., 
V., VII. and VIII., on opposite sides of alleys or courts shall be less than thirty feet, or 
wherever the distance between such doors and windows and any inside lot line of any lot 
upon which any such building is erected is less than fifteen feet, or wherever the distance 
between such doors and windows and the alley line (where the alley is less than thirty feet 
wide) is less than fifteen feet, such windows and the glazed portion of such doors shall be 
made of fire-resisting glass, set in frames of incombustible material. 


Where the windows in buildings of Clase ont lot line courts are {ess than two fest 
from the lot line the sashes shall be stationary. 


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SLIDING SASH WINDOW 


WINDOWS OF ILLINOIS LEATHER CO.’S BUILDING. FIRE-PROOF WINDOWS 
{DISPLACING IRON SHUTTERS 


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Instructions for Measuring Window Openings 


LLE VATION 


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A—Width (outside) D—Offset in Brick Jamb 
B — Height E—Thickness of Wall 
C — Spring of Arch F —Reveal 


G— Width (inside) 
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HARRY C. KNISELY CO.’S STANDARD SINGLE SASH 
PIVOTED WINDOW 


This style of window can be made with hinged sash 


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KNISELY COMPANY, 


CHICAGO 


- Partial List of Buildings 


Equipped with the Harry C. Knisely Co.’s 
Fireproof Windows | 


BUILDING 


LOCATION 


ARCHITECT 


Ruprecht Bldg., 10 Sty. Mercantile. . 
Wi'Gs Ritchie Come se ral siacane es « 
GeH > Hanson Pactoryncx kine: 5 +3 
Borland Bldg., 18 Sty. Office Bldg. . 
Hirsch Wickwire Co., 10 Sty. Mer. . 
Garrett Institute, Library 
Electric Vehicle Co....... 
Woods Motor Veh. Co........... 
Watson Smith 
Port Edwards Fibre Co., Paper Mill. 
Aluminum Mfg. Co 
Gale. Mig. Cox aki mesiin.ccn et es 
Freer Estate, 10 Sty. Mercantile ... 

Evanston Public Library 
Metropolitan Elevated R.R........ 
McCormick Harv. Co...........- 

Hull House 
American School of Correspondence. 
Thompson Chem. Co........ ty 
Eclipse Mach. & Boiler Co......... 
EeastoniGuCo oso Arn act he a a 
Jos. Downey, Bldg. Commissioner. . . 
Sherwin-Williams Co., Paint Mills . 

Chicago Telephone Co............ 
Chicago Carriage Trimming Co...... 


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Chicago 
Evanston, Ill. ..*:... - 
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Port Edwards, Wis. . 
Two Rivers, Wis. .... 
Albion, Mich....... 


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.| Huehl & Schmid 


A. E. Robinson: 

C. O. Hansen 

Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge 
Jenney, Mundie & Jensen 
Chas. R. Ayars 

R. E. Schmidt 

W. A. Otis 

Huehl & Schmid 


V. W. Coddington 

J. C. Llewellyn 

Fritz Foltz 

Phillips, Rogers & Woodyatt 


Pond & Pond 
Pond & Pond 

J. F. Knudson 
W. F. Gubbins 
Huehl & Schmid 
E. A. Hogenson 
H. E. Stevens 
Pond & Pond 
C. A. Eckstorm 


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PPAR RY? C.0 -KNISELY:« COMPANY .7CHICAGO 


Reinforcement for Windows over 5 feet wide 
or over 9 feet high 


Mullion for Pivoted Window 


Transom Bar for 


Pivoted Window 


Transom Bar for Sliding 
Sash Window Mullion for Sliding Sash Window 


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Partial List of Buildings 


KNISELY COMPANY, 


CHICAGO 


Equipped with the Harry C. Knisely Co.’s 
Fireproof Windows 


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BUILDING LOCATION ARCHITECT 
Cable, Case ean ce ae ee ts Giicacga ss cca 
Kenwood Institute............ ... Chicaga?2ere0e ooen W. A. Otis 
Ward-Corby Co..... celine a ae Ghicaga ty cites ket R. C. Fletcher 
College Theater .......... Ghicago: 4.57.) aie J. E. O. Pridmore 
Scovill: Bumames: OSS aes iss Chicago... a eae E. A. Hogenson 
Hardinge: Bigs. oo, Ses ss oe ess Chicaco:: cons. ae 
Spiegel-May-Stern Co. . SC hICaGO sarths: anced Treat & Alschuler 
Chicago City RailwayCo .... ... Chicago's Si <.2 aan Company Architect 
Illinois Leather Company...... ... Chicaga oysclacnies 
Giles Building ..5 a2 Os aes Chicago ati ayaa. W. W. Clay 
C2E SU OMY chee ings hts Galesburg, Ill... .... Company Architect 
fac eet re CUT Gry aa cree ran ee Cedar Rapids, Ia .. 
Dayton Spice Mills Co... ... .... Dayton, Ohio ......| Schenck & Williams 
Torpedo Bldg., WsS Gove: os & Fort Totten, NES Ye coc Lient.-Cols\Wva-L. Marshall 
Kingai 60Go: ese sees ses Bi ae ls Indianapolis, Ind .. 
J JS Sebtee So Beat, See Chicago veeene. is ace Postle & Mahler 
Sprague, Warner & Co........... Chicago ees ais eas ‘C, A. Eckstorm 
Phettze Bldg ioinccetae ot a allo 4 Wp Indianapolis. ...... 
American Terra-Cotta Co., Factory. .| Terra Cotta, Ill. ... | W.D. Gates 
McAvoy-Houghton, Office Bldg .. | Chicago er eer B. R. E. Schmidt 
Quick & Willis, Factory .......... Moline Wey 0 <3 
Fifteld Bldg rns 08 sunset Cone cnn 5 Beloit. Wis.axt. ates: Henry Lord Gay 
Medinah Temple....... ........ Chicagacttacas .| Huehl & Schmid 
Hanchett Paper Co., Warehouse ....| Chicago........... Dean & Dean 
Fort Dearborn Bldg., 15 Sty. Office 
Bidgiter ents ein estat kendeaen Chicagois 0. sane Jenney, Mundie & Jensen 


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COURT ELEVATIONS OF L. C. P. FREER ESTATE BLDG., CHICAGO 
Fritz Foltz, Architect 


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ALLEY ELEVATIONS OF L. C. P. FREER ESTATE BUILDINGS 
CHICAGO 


This photograph shows a good comparison between the unsightly iron shutters and the 
neat appearance of the fireproof windows 


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HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 


TORPEDO BUILDING, U. S. GOVERNMENT ; 
FORT TOTTEN, N. Y. 


IienneColawWwaly Marshall, Architect 


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PARRY -C.o (RNISEL.Y “COMPANY, CHICAGO 


GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 
EVANSTON, ILL. 


Chas. R. Ayars, Architect 


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HARRY C. KNISELY COMPANY, CHICAGO 


EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 
EVANSTON, ILL. 


Phillips, Rogers & Woodyatt, Architects 


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@ Contracts taken in any 
part of the United States 
or Canada. 


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plans at our expense for 


quotations. 


Harry C. Knisely Co. 


273-275 S. Canal Street 
Chicago, Ill. 


CHICAGO 


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